newspaper

English

A stack of newspapers

Etymology

news +‎ paper

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːsˌpeɪpə/, /ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpə/
• (General American) enPR: n(y)o͞oz'pāpər, IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)uzˌpeɪpɚ/

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• Hyphenation: news‧pa‧per

Noun

newspaper (countable and uncountable, plural newspapers)

1. (countable) A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.

   Synonyms: daily, paper, rag (derogatory)

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]?  Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

2. (uncountable, countable) A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.

   Synonym: newsprint

Derived terms

• newspaperdom
• newspaperism
• online newspaper

Translations

publication

• Abkhaz: агазеҭ (āgāzet)
• Afrikaans: koerant (af)
• Albanian: gazetë (sq) f
• Amharic: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
• Arabic: جَرِيدَة‎ f (jarīda), صَحِيفَة‎ f (ṣaḥīfa)

  Egyptian Arabic: جرنان‎ m (gornān), جورنال‎ m (gōrnāl) (Alexandria)

• Armenian: թերթ (hy) (tʿertʿ)
• Assamese: বাতৰি (batori), সংবাদপত্র
• Asturian: periódicu m
• Azerbaijani: qəzet (az)
• Bashkir: гәзит (gäzit)
• Basque: egunkari
• Belarusian: газе́та f (hazjéta), газэ́та f (hazéta) (dated)
• Bengali: সংবাদপত্র (sôngbadpôtr)
• Breton: kazetenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: ве́стник (bg) m (véstnik)
• Burmese: သတင်းစာ (my) (sa.tang:ca), ^{(please verify)} ကော်လံ (my) (kaulam)
• Catalan: diari (ca) m, periòdic (ca) m
• Chichewa: nyuzi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 報紙, 报纸 (bou³ zi²)

  Dungan: бозы (bozɨ), бо (bo)

  Hakka: 報紙, 报纸 (po^-chṳ́), 新聞紙, 新闻纸 (sîn^-vùn^-chṳ́)

  Mandarin: 報紙 (zh), 报纸 (zh) (bàozhǐ), 報 (zh), 报 (zh) (bào), 報章 (zh), 报章 (zh) (bàozhāng)

  Min Dong: 報紙, 报纸 (bó̤-cāi)

  Min Nan: 報紙 (zh-min-nan), 报纸 (pò^-chóa), 新聞 (zh-min-nan), 新闻 (sin^-bûn), 新聞紙, 新闻纸 (sin^-bûn^-chóa)

  Wu: 報紙, 报纸 (pau tsr)

• Chuukese: simpung
• Chuvash: хаҫат (haśat)
• Crimean Tatar: gazeta
• Czech: noviny (cs) f pl
• Danish: avis (da) c, dagblad (da) n, tidsskrift (da) c
• Dutch: krant (nl) f, nieuwsblad (nl) n, dagblad (nl) n
• Elfdalian: tiningg f
• Erzya: куляконёв (kuljakonjov), газета (gazeta)
• Esperanto: ĵurnalo (eo)
• Estonian: ajaleht (et), leht (et)
• Faroese: blað n, tíðindablað n, dagblað n
• Fijian: niusi.veva
• Finnish: sanomalehti (fi), lehti (fi)
• French: journal (fr) m
• Galician: xornal (gl) m
• Georgian: გაზეთი (gazeti)
• German: Zeitung (de) f
• Greek: εφημερίδα (el) f (efimerída)
• Greenlandic: aviisi
• Gujarati: અખબાર (gu) (akhabār), છાપું (gu) n (chāpũ), વર્તમાનપત્ર (vartamānpatra)
• Hausa: jarida
• Hebrew: עִיתּוֹן‎ (he) (‘itón)
• Hindi: अख़बार (hi) m (axbār), समाचारपत्र (hi) m (samācārpatra), वृत्तपत्र (hi) m (vŕttapatra)
• Hungarian: hírlap (hu), újság (hu)
• Hunsrik: Zeidung f
• Icelandic: dagblað (is) n, fréttablað n, blað (is) n
• Ido: jurnalo (io)
• Inari Sami: aavis
• Indonesian: koran (id)
• Irish: nuachtán (ga) m, páipéar nuachta m
• Italian: giornale (it) m, quotidiano (it) m
• Japanese: 新聞 (ja) (しんぶん, shinbun)
• Javanese: ariwara, ariwarta, ariwarti, koran (jv)
• Kalmyk: сонин (sonin)
• Kannada: ವೃತ್ತಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (vṛttapatrike), ಸಮಾಚಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (samācāra patrike), ವಾರ್ತಾಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (vārtāpatrike)
• Kazakh: газет (kk) (gazet), үнжария (ünjarïya)
• Khmer: កាសែត (km) (kaasaet), សារពត៌មាន (saapɔədɑɑmiən)
• Korean: 신문 (ko) (sinmun) (新聞 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: rojname (ku) f, nûçename (ku) f

  Sorani: ڕۆژنامە‎ (rojname)

• Kyrgyz: гезит (ky) (gezit)
• Lao: ໜັງສືພິມ (nang sư̄ phim)
• Latin: acta diurna n pl
• Latvian: avīze (lv) f, laikraksts m
• Lithuanian: laikraštis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Zeitung f

• Lü: ᦐᧂᦉᦹᦘᦲᧄ (ṅangṡuephiim)
• Macedonian: весник m (vesnik)
• Malay: akhbar, surat khabar
• Malayalam: ദിനപത്രം (ml) (dinapatraṃ)
• Maltese: ġurnal m
• Maori: nūpepa
• Marathi: वृत्तपत्र (vruttapatra)
• Moksha: газета (gazeta)
• Mongolian: сонин (mn) (sonin)
• Navajo: aseezį́ binaaltsoos, haneʼ binaaltsoos
• Nepali: अखबार (ne) (akhabāra)
• Norman: gâzette f
• Northern Sami: aviisa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avis (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: avis f

• Novial: jurnale
• Occitan: jornal (oc) m
• Okinawan: かみはぶ (kamihabu)
• Oriya: ସମ୍ବାଦପତ୍ର (sômbadôpôtrô), ଖବରକାଗଜ (or) (khôbôrôkagôjô)
• Ossetian: газет (gazet)
• Pashto: ورځپاڼه‎ (ps) (wrajpãṇa), جريده‎ (ps) (ǰaridá), روزنامه‎ (roznāmá), اخبار‎ (ps) m pl (axbār), ژورنال‎ (žurnãl)
• Persian: روزنامه‎ (fa) (ruz-nâme)
• Pohnpeian: simpung
• Polish: gazeta (pl) f
• Portuguese: jornal (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਅਖਬਾਰ (pa) f (akhbār), ਸਮਾਚਾਰ ਪੱਤਰ (pa) m (samāchār patr)
• Romanian: ziar (ro), ziare (ro) n pl
• Romansch: gasetta f
• Russian: газе́та (ru) f (gazéta)
• Rusyn: нови́ны f pl (novýnŷ)
• Santali: ᱵᱮᱣᱨᱟ ᱥᱟᱠᱟᱢ (bevra sakam), ᱠᱷᱚᱵᱚᱨ ᱠᱟᱜᱚᱡᱽ (khôbôr kagôjᱽ)
• Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: но̀вине f pl

  Roman: nòvine (sh) f pl

• Sindhi: اخبار‎
• Sinhalese: පුවත්පත (puvatpata), පත්තරේ (pattarē)
• Skolt Sami: gaˊzaat, gaˊzeâˊt
• Slovak: noviny f pl
• Slovene: časopis (sl) m, časnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: casnik m

  Upper Sorbian: nowiny f pl

• Sotho: koranta (st)
• Spanish: periódico (es) m, diario (es) m, rotativo m
• Swahili: gazeti (sw), magazeti pl (noun 5/6)
• Swedish: tidning (sv) c, dagstidning (sv) c, morgontidning (sv) c, kvällstidning (sv) c
• Tagalog: dyariyo, pahayagan (tl)
• Tajik: газета (tg) (gazeta), рӯзнома (tg) (rüznoma)
• Tamil: நாளிதழ் (ta) (nāḷitaḻ)
• Tatar: газет (ğazet), гәзит (ğäzit)
• Telugu: వార్తాపత్రిక (te) (vārtāpatrika)
• Thai: หนังสือพิมพ์ (th) (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-pim)
• Tibetan: ཚག་པར (tshag par)
• Tigrinya: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
• Tok Pisin: niuspepa
• Tundra Nenets: газета
• Turkish: gazete (tr), günce (tr), gaste (tr) (colloquial), yenün
• Turkmen: gazet
• Udmurt: газета (gazeta)
• Ukrainian: газе́та (uk) f (hazéta)
• Urdu: اخبار‎ m (axbār), سماچار پتر‎ m (samācār-patr)
• Uyghur: گېزىت‎ (gëzit)
• Uzbek: roʻznoma (uz), gazeta (uz)
• Vietnamese: tờ báo, báo (vi), báo chí (vi)
• Vilamovian: cajtung f
• Welsh: papur newydd (cy) m; newyddiadur m
• West Frisian: krante c
• Western Panjabi: خبر‎ (pnb) f
• Yakut: хаһыат (xahıat)
• Yiddish: צײַטונג‎ f (tsaytung)
• Yoruba: ìwéìròyìn
• Zazaki: qezeta m rocdek c
• Zhuang: bauqceij

paper on which newspapers are printed

• Afrikaans: koerantpapier
• Armenian: թերթ (hy) (tʿertʿ)
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 報紙, 报纸 (po^-chṳ́), 新聞紙, 新闻纸 (sîn^-vùn^-chṳ́)

  Mandarin: 新聞用紙, 新闻用纸 (xīnwén yòng zhǐ); 白報紙, 白报纸 (bái bàozhǐ)

• Czech: novinový papír m
• Danish: avispapir
• Dutch: krantenpapier (nl) n
• Estonian: ajalehepaber
• Finnish: sanomalehtipaperi
• French: papier journal (fr) m
• Galician: papel de xornal m
• German: Zeitungspapier (de) n
• Icelandic: dagblaðapappír m
• Italian: carta da giornale f
• Japanese: 新聞紙 (ja) (しんぶんし, shinbunshi)
• Latvian: avīžpapīrs m, avīze (lv) f

• Lithuanian: laikraštinis popierius m
• Maltese: gazzetta (mt) f
• Norwegian: avispapir n
• Persian: کاغذ روزنامه‎ (kağaz-e ruznâme)
• Portuguese: papel de periódico m, papel-jornal m
• Russian: газе́тная бума́га f (gazétnaja bumága)
• Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd m
• Slovak: novinový papier m
• Spanish: papel de periódico m
• Swahili: gazeti (sw)
• Swedish: tidningspapper n
• Tagalog: dyariyo, pahayagan (tl)
• Tamil: செய்தித்தாள் (ta) (ceytittāḷ)
• Thai: หนังสือพิมพ์ (th) (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-pim)
• Turkish: gazete kağıdı
• Zazaki: qağıtê qezeti m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} בלאַט‎ n (blat)

Verb

newspaper (third-person singular simple present newspapers, present participle newspapering, simple past and past participle newspapered)

1. (transitive) To cover with newspaper.

   She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.

2. (intransitive, transitive) To engage in the business of journalism (usually used only in the gerund, newspapering)

   He newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towns.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To harass in newspaper articles.

   He was newspapered out of public life.

Usage notes

• The harass sense is usually in passive constructions.

Further reading

• newspaper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia